Every year, underclassmen get the chance to take center stage in the student-directed freshman shows. The first-year students audition for those upperclassmen who have been chosen to be directors.
“I’m excited because [for the show casts are] just freshmen, so we have a better chance to show what we can do,” Madison Frederick (9) said.
This year the students auditioned for four different shows. To do this, each student was placed in a group of five or six others who switched locations every half-hour to perform for a different group of directors.
“I thought that [the process of auditioning] was good. It was a good way to to it, but I wish we would have had more time to show what we could do because I felt, with the time limit, we didn’t have enough time to show what we can do,” Claire Kijewski (9) said.
Among the shows this year are: “Emotional Baggage,” a silent show about the emotions of strangers who meet at a train station, “Face Forward: Growing up in Nazi Germany,” a drama about children growing up during the Holocaust, “If Girls Asked Boys for Dates,” a comedy about what would happen if dating roles were reversed, and “Crushed,” a comedy about couples and their failed attempts at love.
“[All of the shows] were interesting, and I can’t wait to see them all come together,” Alexander Vrbanoff (9) said.
Freshman show performances will be April 30 and May 1 at 7 p.m.
